Introduction and Summary:Animal farm is an animal fable with a deliberate purpose. It is very realistic about society and its politics. There are a number of conflicts in Animal Farm: the animals versus Mr. Jones, Snowball versus Napoleon, the common animals versus the pigs, Animal Farm versus the neighbouring humans, but all of them are expressions of the underlying tension between the oppressors and oppressed classes and between the naive ideals and harsh realities of socialism. In the novel, the animals throw off their human oppressors and establish a state called Animal Farm; the pigs, being the most intelligent animals in the group, take control of the planning and government of the farm; Snowball and Napoleon engage in ideological disputes and compete for power. Napoleon runs Snowball off the farm with his trained pack of dogs and declares that the power to make decisions for the farm will be exercised solely by the pigs. Squealer emerges to justify Napoleon’s actions with skilful but double-dealing reinterpretations of Animalist principles; Napoleon continues to consolidate his power, eliminating his enemies and reinforcing his status as supreme leader while the common animals continue to obey the pigs, hoping for a better future.

Evaluation and Analysis: The book does flow very smoothly. It affected me because on reading it, I waited impatiently to see if the animals would eventually revolt or leave the farm for real equality. But unfortunately, they conformed and adjusted to mistreatment. The story is told from the point of view of the common animals of Animal Farm, though it refers to them in the third person plural as “they.” The writer style is omniscient. He analyzes the characters and tells the story in a way that shows that he knows more about the characters than they know about themselves. The tone of the novel is objective, stating external facts and rarely deviating from the animals’ expectations of equality. The tone of the story was to show the obvious irony; they wanted a more just policy, but their own leaders became what they revolted against in the first place. Animal Farm shows that the author does not appear conspicuously as a narrator or major character. The anonymous narrator of the story is almost a nonentity, and was not bias in relating the story. Animal Farm is set in an unspecified time period and it shows that the book can be contemporary. I believe it is a lesson or a philosophical insight of how power can destroy a country’s democracy. What I observed in this novel and one of the novel’s most impressive accomplishments is its portrayal not just of the figures in power, pigs, but also of the oppressed animals themselves. Animal Farm is not told from the perspective of any particular character. Rather, the story is told from the perspective of the common animals as a whole. Gullible, loyal, and hardworking, these animals give Orwell a chance to show how situations of oppression arise not only from the motives and tactics of the pigs but also from the animals’ unawareness of being oppressed. When presented with a dilemma, Boxer prefers not to puzzle out the implications of various possible actions but instead to repeat to himself, “Napoleon is always right.” I believe that was his comfort to any wrong or doubt that may arise. Animal Farm demonstrates how the inability or unwillingness to question authority condemns the working class to suffer the full extent of the ruling class’s oppression.

It is also impressive that Orwell showed how the pigs used a tactic to abuse language as an instrument to abuse their power. Language was manipulated as an instrument of control. In Animal Farm, the pigs gradually twist and distort the commandments of the revolution to justify their behaviour and decriminalize the pigs’ treacheries and to keep the other animals in the dark....

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...AnimalFarm
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Preface Written By Russell Baker
139 Pages
Fiction / “Fairy Story” (Fable)
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AnimalFarm: Book ReviewAnimalFarm is a dystopian, allegorical novel written by George Orwell and published in 1945.
Orwell was a novelist as well as a journalist, and is best known for his narrative documentaries and his novellas', including “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” and “AnimalFarm.” His novella “AnimalFarm” mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era,” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between common farmanimals and important communist/socialist leaders and political groups at the time, including Karl Marx/ Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. The actual plot of the novel follows a group of farmanimals who overthrow a farm owner by force and set up their own community, in which all animals are treated equally, where all of them equally share the workload, and see every animal in AnimalFarm as an equal to their society (an ideal communistic society). However, because of ignorance, greed, the illusion of status, and class differences (pigs being the more intellectual species), much of the political power sways towards the pigs, and eventually towards only Napoleon and his private army. The novel can...

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AnimalFarm is basically a story of communism told in the setting of a farm. Because of a very convincing vision of a dying pig, the animals led by the younger pigs revolt against the cruel human farm owner, one pig, takes over and tries to turn the farm into a sort of Utopia with guidelines to prevent animals from becoming like man and the farm prospered, but he's chased out by another pig, hungry of power and cruel. The said pig begins to manipulate and brainwash the other animals while slowly turning into the same type of person that the owner originally was and the farm starts a rather unpleasant downfall.
AnimalFarm is an allegory, in this case, of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalin's tyrannical government. It is generally accepted that Orwell constructed his story to reflect this kind of purpose. Manor Farm represents Russia; Snowball is Leon Trotsky, who lost power struggle with Stalin; Napoleon is Stalin; and Napoleon's dogs are Stalin's secret police. The corruption of absolute power is the major theme of...

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In the human world, the people of Russia felt that they weren't being treated fairly. Their leader, Czar Nicholas, was a poor one who corrupted their economy and caused a shortage in population by initiating the war with Japan. The lack of people caused issues in factories and farms which then resulted in a shortage of food and material. The people rioted against the poor conditions and low pay but Czar Nicholas did not agree and came back at them with violence. This is what caused the Russian Revolution.
In AnimalFarm, the animals of Manor Farm felt that their farmer, Mr. Jones, was treating the animals of the farm poorly by letting them go hungry for days, lashing out at them, making them work long hours, and not providing warmth in the cold weather. The animals came together in the barn and came to the conclusion that they weren't going to stand for these conditions, causing their revolution.
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The Seven Commandments of AnimalFarm were made to form the basic structure or the new government. As the pigs became more and more hypocritical, they added onto the original rules. In example, when the pigs execute the animals who had done wrong, the rule “No animal shall kill any other animal” had “Without cause” added onto the end. This means that their original belief was being altered...

...PlotManor Farm is a former prosperous farm that has fallen on hard times, and suffers under the now ineffective leadership of its drunken and aggressive owner, Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, the prize boar and the second-oldest on the farm, calls the animals on the farm for a meeting, where he compares the humans to parasites and encourages them to break free from their tyrant's influence, while reminding them that they must hold true to their convictions after they have gained freedom. With that, he teaches the animals a revolutionary song, "Beasts of England", before collapsing dead mid-song to the animals' horror.
The next morning, Jones neglects to feed the animals for breakfast, and they decide to break into the storehouse to help themselves. When Jones wakes up and attempts to intimidate them with his whip, the animals revolt and drive the drunken and irresponsible Mr. Jones from the farm, renaming it "AnimalFarm". They set to work destroying every trace of Jones' influence, mainly the weapons used against them. An investigation of the farmhouse leads them to concede against living there, though one of the head pigs, an antagonistic boar named Napoleon, takes interest in the abandoned house, and even more so in a litter of puppies left motherless.
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